Arguments for and against euthanasia
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- Created on: 06-05-16 09:40
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- Euthanasia
- Arguments for Euthanasia
- IT IS NOT MURDER: Gregory E Pence - killing humans that don't want to live it not wrong.
- IT IS MERCIFUL: Thomas More - argued in his famous book that when a patient suffers a "torturing or lingering pain, so that there is no hope" they may choose to die as it it is a merciful option.
- GIVES PEOPLE AUTONOMY: Mill - if it doesn't affect someone else's, individuals should have full autonomy. It should be an option for a competent adult who is willing to make the decision.
- JACK KEVORKIAN: Dr Death - photographed the dying eyes of patients. Kevorkian believed that helping people was not enough and killed Thomas Youk with his permission.
- Issues with Legislation
- SLIPPERY SLOPE ARGUMENT: Vulnerable people like the elderly or the disabled may feel pressured to request an early death.
- Practical Implications: the continued treatment of a patient who has no reasonable hope, is it practical to euthanise the patient?
- HUMAN RIGHTS; THE RIGHT TO DIE: those who are dying have the right to refuse treatment to prolong their life, and the doctor is legally required to respect this.
- Peter Singer
- The right to life is essentially tied to a being's capacity to hold preferences and feel pleasure and pain.
- In favour of voluntary euthanasia, including some forms of non-voluntary.
- Unless the benefit of the people who love these "non-persons" outweighs the emotional and financial burden to individuals and society keeping them alive, they can be killed.
- Pope Francis
- Denounced the right to die, as euthanasia is a sin.
- Euthanasia is a "false sense of compassion."
- The Catholic Church opposes euthanasia and assisted suicide, because life starts at conception and should end at natural death.
- Assisted suicide is "an absurdity."
- Arguments for Euthanasia
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